His to Condemn

<p>Condemn</p><p>To express an unfavorable or adverse judgement on.</p><p>To pronounce to be guilty.</p><p>To sentence to punishment.</p><p>To give grounds or reason for convicting or censuring.</p><p>To doom to eternal punishment in hell.</p><p><br></p><p>I knew I had met the love of my life when I met Elijah Lombardi.</p><p>What I didn't know was my world would be flipped inside out.</p><p>That he would pass judgement on me and pronounce me guilty for crimes I did not commit.</p><p><br></p><p>I tried to escape him knowing he would hunt me down.</p><p>Just when I thought I was safe he came.</p><p>Came to sentence me to punishment.</p><p><br></p><p>On some level I wanted to be found.</p><p>I still loved the cruel man.</p><p>Even when he locked me away like a real prisoner.</p><p>To convict me of those crimes I still knew nothing about.</p><p><br></p><p>After oscillating between love and hate he revealed to me the truth.</p><p>An ongoing rivalry between two Italian families.</p><p>And I'm caught right in the middle.</p><p>I'm made aware of a girl that has been buried deep inside of me.</p><p><br></p><p>I had a choice to make.</p><p>Choose the family who gave me up for my safety.</p><p>Or choose love.</p><p>The man who loves me.</p><p>Or the man that constantly makes my heart tremor for him just to crush it over and over.</p><p><br></p><p>I made the choice and realized too late it was the wrong one.</p><p>Giving grounds for my conviction.</p><p>Dooming myself to eternal punishment in hell.</p><p><br></p><p>Now I have no idea whether the man ever really loved me or if it was all part of his condemnation.</p>